Seabiscuit (Horse)
Seabiscuit
1933 AD - 1947 AD
Champion thoroughbred racehorse in the United States who became the top money-winning racehorse up to the 1940s.
A small horse, at 15.2 hands high, Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, winning only a quarter of his first 40 races, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression.
Seabiscuit has been the subject of numerous books and films, including
- Seabiscuit: the Lost Documentary (1939)
- Shirley Temple film The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
- a book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (1999) by Laura Hillenbrand
- a film adaptation of Hillenbrand's book, Seabiscuit (2003), that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture
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